The other 450 herbs include such familiar plants as oats, horseradish, tarragon, heather, and hemlock, and such exotic herbs as ylangylang, iceland moss, and scurvy grass. Complete title of atlas in the german language kohlers. The printable manual is hundreds of pages long and filled with closeup photos for identification, medicinal uses, and loads of easytofollow recipes. Details kohlers medizinalpflanzen in naturgetreuen. The ten best books on foraging wild foods and herbs. Medicinal plants naturally synthesize and accumulate some secondary metabolites, like alkaloids, sterols, terpenes, flavonoids, saponins, glycosides, cyanogenics, tannins, resins.
The world health organization who defines traditional medicinal plants as natural plant materials. Kohlers medizinalpflanzen is the german title of the medicinal plants of kohler the atlas of medicinal plants with the illustrations and the brief explanations, one of the most known reference books on the medicinal plants of the end of the 19th century. Nearly all images in this category are not of original color. K hler, 18831914 medizinal pflanzen, was published in 1887 in gera, an eastcentral german city south of leipzig. The set of four volumes was a noteworthy achievement and included plants of medicinal interest from several european nations. Kohlers medizinalpflanzen simple english wikipedia. The work was first published in the late 19th century by franz eugen kohler of gera. The chinese book on roots and grasses pen tsao, written by emperor shen nung circa 2500 bc, treats 365 drugs dried parts of medicinal plants, many of. Its complete title is kohlers medizinalpflanzen in naturgetreuen abbildungen mit kurz erlauterndem texte. It comes in four volumes and includes over 300 detailed, beautiful, botanical illustrations of plants. It seems, that the owner of the source images has adjusted the original scans to get a white paper as background.
I have other books for stuff that is fairly common to my area. The book was written by kohler but the pictures were drawn by artists l. Atlas zur pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, neerlandica, british pharmacopoeia, zum codex medicamentarius, sowie zur pharmacopoeia of the united states of america. Atlas zur pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, neerlandica. The gardeners companion to medicinal plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, which combines exquisite botanical illustrations. The worlds most effective healing plants by tieraona low dog m.
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